Railroad-tie.



0. P. MEGAHAN.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.28, 1913.

1,096,046. Patented May 12, 1914.

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RAILROAD-Tin.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914:.

Application filed August 28, 1913. Serial No. 787,109.

To all rvhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER P. MncArrAN, a citizen of the United States, residlng at .l/Vesterville, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Railroad-Ties, of which the following is a specificat1on.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved railroad tie entirely of metal that can be manufactured chiefly out of standard material suitably shaped.

The invention is embodied in the construction herein shown and described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof-Figure 1 is a side view of the tie broken out at the middle and showing the rails thereon in cross section. Flg. 2 1s a cross section of the tie body showing the rail supporting members and a fraction of rail in side view secured thereon. Fig. 3 1s a plan View of one of the ties with a fraction of rail secured thereon. Fig. 1 is a plan view of a piece of sheet metal cut and punched for bending into rail supporting form. Fig. 5 is a plan view of one end of the tie body. Fig. 6 illustrates in perspective view another species of railroad tie embodying general features of my invention.

In the views and referringparticularly to Figs. 1 to 4c inclusive the character 1 designates the tie body which is formed of a single piece of ordinary angle iron or steel. The angle iron is notched out on the lower flange and at opposite sides of the middle of the bar as indicated at 8 Fig. 5 and bent to a form like that shown in dotted lines in said view. The ends of the angle bar are similarly notched out and the ends bent together and welded as indicated at the right hand side of Fig. 8. There is thus formed a tie body of box-like form closed at both ends with a long slot 9 in its bottom. This slot permits drainage.

The rail support is formed-out of an oblong fiat piece of iron or steel slit diagonally and parallelly from opposite sides to form a central bridging portion 10 and two acute angled tongues 11, 11, blunted by cutting off the points as seen at 12, 12. The tongues are punched with square holes at 18, 13, to receive rail securing devices and the ends of the plate are punched with round holes 31 to receive rivets. The blank thus formed is bent to cause the ends to stand parallel to each other and form legs for attachment to the inner walls of the tie body and the tongues are bent outward in opposite directions to cooperate with the bridging portion 10 in forming the rest for the rail as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The legs of the rail support are riveted to the tie body by rivets as seen at 14 in Fig. 2.

The rail can be secured to the tie by means of a spring clip 15 held over the base of the rail by a bolt 16 having a square shank passed through square holes, indicated by dotted lines, in the ends of the spring clip. The square shank of the bolt 16 is of sufficient extension to reach through the square hole 13 of the subjacent tongue 11 of the rail supporting member; and the lower end of the bolt is threaded to receive an ordinary nut 17 and a nut locking device 18.

In Fig. 6 is shown the different species referred to which is of simple construction for light rails upon which the traific is not heavy. In this species the tie body 20 is formed of a T-bar inverted. The rail support in this construction is made of an oblong piece of flat steel or iron slit along the middle from one end to form tongues 11*, 11*, that are bent outward in opposite directions, said tongues being provided with square holes 13*, 13", to receive rail securing devices like those hereinbefore described. The rail support in this species is riveted to the stem of the T-shaped tie body by rivets 1 With the construction herein described ample resilience for the rails is provided; the parts can all be manufactured in the shop out of standard material and no extraordinary tools are needed for laying the ties or securing the rails in place.

What I claim is:

1. A railroad tie including, in combination, a metallic tie body, and a rail chair or supporting member formed out of a quadrangular plate of metal cut slantingly from opposite sides and bent to form legs and a bridging member connecting said legs and" connecting bridge or chair and oppositely oppositely bent tongues, said tongues adapt- 10 extending tongues to receive the rail fastened to receive the rail fastening devices. mg devices. I

2. A railroad tie including, in combina- OLIVER MEGAHAN' tion, a metallic tie body, and a rail chair or lVitnesses'. supporting member formed out of plate Gnome M. FINGKEL, metal cut and bent to form a pair of legs, a BENJAMIN FINGKEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). d. 

